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Hands-On Financial Modeling with Excel for Microsoft 365 - Second Edition

By : Shmuel Oluwa
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Hands-On Financial Modeling with Excel for Microsoft 365 - Second Edition

By: Shmuel Oluwa

Overview of this book

Financial modeling is a core skill required by anyone who wants to build a career in finance. Hands-On Financial Modeling with Excel for Microsoft 365 explores financial modeling terminologies with the help of Excel. Starting with the key concepts of Excel, such as formulas and functions, this updated second edition will help you to learn all about referencing frameworks and other advanced components for building financial models. As you proceed, you'll explore the advantages of Power Query, learn how to prepare a 3-statement model, inspect your financial projects, build assumptions, and analyze historical data to develop data-driven models and functional growth drivers. Next, you'll learn how to deal with iterations and provide graphical representations of ratios, before covering best practices for effective model testing. Later, you'll discover how to build a model to extract a statement of comprehensive income and financial position, and understand capital budgeting with the help of end-to-end case studies. By the end of this financial modeling Excel book, you'll have examined data from various use cases and have developed the skills you need to build financial models to extract the information required to make informed business decisions.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Financial Modeling Overview
4
Part 2 – The Use of Excel Features and Functions for Financial Modeling
8
Part 3 – Building an Integrated 3-Statement Financial Model with Valuation by DCF
15
Part 4 – Case Study

Introduction

Throughout this book, we have mentioned the time value of money, that money today is of more value than money tomorrow. This is due to the following reasons:

  • Depreciation – Prices always go up, so the spending power of 1 Naira today is greater than the spending power of 1 Naira tomorrow.
  • The ability to invest, so with interest, your money grows over time. 1 Naira today = 1 Naira + interest tomorrow.

This brings us to the concepts of Present Value (PV), Future Value (FV), and opportunity cost or discount rate. The PV is today's value and FV is the value at some time in the future.

When you choose a particular line of action, the benefit you would have derived from other alternatives that you did not choose is referred to as the opportunity cost. The opportunity cost is the same as the discount rate and this rate is what is used to convert FV to PV and vice versa.